Twisters

T 5367

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

His father smelled funny. It’s what he most remembered about him. He thought this as he washed his own son’s pants. About the power of genes.

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T 5366

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

And then he met her father. She had said she’d looked like him, and now he saw how true it was. They shook hands. You’re beautiful, he said.

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T 5365

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She gives him a paper bag and says, My heart’s inside. He drives off with the paper bag. It flies out the car window. But he doesn’t notice.

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T 5264

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

She struggles awkwardly with the recycling bin. He wants to dismiss her. But can’t. Everyone will make fun of us, he sighs with resignation.

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T 5263

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

I was starving and ran into the kitchen and from the bedroom my wife yelled out, Don’t touch the ham! and I touched the ham and she left me.

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T 5262

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He brought her flowers and an expensive Pinot. She kissed him deeply. He said, My wife doesn’t love you like I do. And that killed the mood.

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T 5261

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He cups her foot in his hand. I don’t really need shoes, she tells him. He stands and says, Then what? She wishes she’d gotten the pedicure.

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T 5260

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

He obsesses over the new girl in the office. One day she catches him smelling her chair. At least I wasn’t in it, she says. His heart aches.

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T 5259

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

They woke and she sighed and said, I feel dead when you kiss me. But he made lemonade out of that lemon and wrote a book. It sold very well.

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T 5258

By Arjun Basu | Published: February 20, 2012

After the argument we hugged and made up and she put her hands around my throat and said, I could kill you, and it sounded like she meant it.

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